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those who came before. >> we have now the worst pension benefit in all the statfor law enforcemt. >> reporter: that is the police union president who says the city is penny wise and pound foolish when it comes to the new pension deal because officers won't stick with san jose. >> for the next year and a half, it will look like we're kind of keeping our head above water. but by about the year 2015, the dam is going to break and we're going to have a flood of people leaving between retirements and resignations. >> reporter: the deal was brokered hours before it went to arbitration and only affects newly hired officers. instead of retirement at 50 they have to work until 60. instead of 90% of their final salary as a pension, they will now get 65%. >> as you increase the number of new employees you save money so it grows for 30 years. >> reporter: mayor reed says san jose's budget will no longer be devoured by paying
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for hefty pension benefits and the savings will enable the city to restore services and hire more officers than it could before. >> we have to bring the costs down so we can hire more police officers and increase the size of the force. >> reporter: the department has 1100 sworn officers now down from about 1400 due to layoffs and resignations. whether san jose can still attract and retain officers is debatable. >> we had 1600 applicants for the class that's going to start in september. we have a lot of people who want to work in the city of san jose. >> san jose will be kind of a gateway into the law enforcement profession. but they won't call this place home. they will end up somewhere else. >> reporter: and there's still a lot to be worked out between the police union and the city of san jose. in fact, the police union is suing the city over measure b the voter-approved measure b pension reform and that will be decided in court later. >> when they crunch the numbers for you, were they able to tell
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you how much money the city would save. >> reporter: they are not able to say exactly how much they would save with this new deal for the new hires yet because a lot depends on how many people they will be able to hire in the future. but the way they describe it now, san jose spends about 50% of all the money it spent on officers for that officers' pension. under this new deal they will only spend about 10% so you can see that the cost savings will be pretty big. >> yeah. it will be. all right, len, thanks. one woman was killed, four others hurt, when an suv went out of control on highway 13 in oakland this afternoon headed south, that white toyota sequoia hitting the center divide. when the driver overcorrected, the suv rolled over several times. a female passenger died. four others were sent to the hospital. two are in critical condition. oakland unified is sending in extra help to a troubled middle school plagued by repeated police visits, expulsions, even student- teacher brawls. but kpix 5's kpix 5's da lin
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found out it may be too little too late. [ yelling and cursing ] >> reporter: a parent gave kpix 5 this cell phone video. it shows a fight between a substitute teacher and a student at alliance academy. surrounded by fences, this is one of the toughest middle schools in east oakland. with only 360 students, ages 10 to 13, already this year 5 expulsions and 13 police visits. a parent calls it -- [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: out of a total of 13 teachers at alliance this year, 10 are new. the turnover rate is much higher here than the district average of 14%. >> this is a high needs school. when i'm here, i feel like i owe them 150% every time i'm here. and as a result of that, i feel like i have burnt-out. i have treated this like a sprint and not a marathon. >> reporter: in fact, two of
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the three teachers i interviewed will leave oakland after the school year. the third teacher is on the fenc the district is well aware of the problem. >> you get in a cycle where you're constantly placing new teachers. those teachers leave after a couple of years. and it creates a lack of stability at the school. and i think that is something that does undermine academic progress to a certain extent. >> reporter: and students say that's why some kids act out and disrespect their teachers. >> you can't trust them. >> no. >> reporter: why? >> because they new. >> reporter: they new? >> yes. >> reporter: you can't build relationship with them? >> you could but -- [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: this fight happened a few months ago and the school isn't denying a more recent event. a student says his classmate started what he called a riot in a classroom. >> they destroyed the whole classroom. >> reporter: what -- >> they broke the desk, threw the computers on the floor, all of that. >> reporter: after media attention this week, oakland unified sent in extra administrators to work with troubled students but some
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teachers say the help comes too late. >> now a lot of people are like supporting me. like we need you in the classroom. we need you here, a lot of adults, a lot of teachers. but no one is really saying that before i turned in my resignation papers. so -- i think i needed to hear that. >> reporter: alliance has also had three different principals in four years and education experts said those teachers and students were set up to fail. >> it's too little, all right, too late, too slow, that -- and that's what i mean by like we don't see this as a crisis. right? it's -- if this was piedmont, right, it would completely shut down! >> it's a great sense of guilt that i feel leaving. but for me, i'm tired. >> reporter: in oakland, i'm da lin, kpix 5. >> the district is promising to keep the additional administrators at the school for at least a few more weeks. nearly nine months after
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richmond's refinery fire, chevron has resumed operations at the damaged crude unit. that unit could be 100% functional in the coming weeks. it would crank out 244,000 barrels a day. the refinery has been running at half capacity since the incident last august. new developments in the case of a nevada hospital accused of patient dumping in california. kpix 5's linda yee says the feds are taking action. linda. >> reporter: yes, they are, liz. in fact, several dozen of those patients that were allegedly dumped ended up right here in the san francisco bay area after getting off greyhound buses. now we're learning that that psychiatric hospital located in las vegas faces disciplinary action as well as sanctions unless they clean up their mess. they are poor mentally ill patients given one way greyhound bus tickets, taken from their psychiatric hospital in las vegas and dumped in cities around the country
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including san francisco. federal authorities found rawlins-neale psychiatric hospital out of compliance. they have to fix their problems. losing medicare will hurt the hospital's major source of income. san francisco's city attorney launched and investigation this week when it was revealed at least three dozen of the patients ended up here. >> i'm gratified that the federal government has stepped in to at least provide some additional oversight. >> reporter: it was a "sacramento bee" investigation that reveals rawson-neal's patient dumping in one case 48- year-old james brown was given a bus ticket, three days of medication for schizophrenia, depression, snacks, and instructions to call 911 when he arrived in sacramento. in the days since they was revealed, the hospital has made some dramatic changes when they discharge patients. >> there's a change in policy that nevada said they are going to put in place which would
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require individuals to be accompanied while -- if they were discharged. >> reporter: the city suspects that some of those patients dumped here may be in the homeless population. shelters are being notified to be on the lookout. but so far, only two patients have been found. now, some of those changes say city officials are just the beginning but the devil they say in the details. the psych hospital has 10 days to reply to the federal government to say they have met some of the conditions to qualify again for medicare patients. >> what is the nevada department of health and human services saying about this? >> reporter: i spoke to a spokesman earlier this afternoon. they claim that they couldn't give me any information, that they were preparing a statement. we did not -- we never did get that statement, but we do know that multiple investigations have been ongoing in the state of nevada and we already know that two of those hospital employees have been disciplined. >> somebody is going to have to
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start talking soon. thank you. other bay area headlines, arson at a school in san leandro. this is what's left of portable buildings at james madison elementary. fire ripped through all six buildings early this morning. investigators suspect arson because those portables were only a day old. they weren't even hooked up to the utilities. no one was hurt. classes went on as normal today. heat may have been a factor in deadly crash in alamo. a man in his 20s was killed after his car hit a telephone pole at 2 a.m. both directions of stone valley road were temporarily closed while pg&e repaired the power pole. the crash didn't cause outages. humorous or horrifying? coming up, why the governor of texas says he is disgusted by a cartoon in a california newspaper. >> basically, we know coming into fire season we'll be busy.
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>> how bay area firefighters are bracing for battle months before the start of summer. >> the driest start to the year ever in california. just when you thought the forecast was too good to be true, we find out it is. there are changes. find out when we might be back to the 90s. that's coming up. rush hour on bart. >> feels like a cattle car. >> it's just like sardines. >> can't breathe. >> why it's going to get worse and what about your safety? the dangers of the oncoming crush coming up next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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governor of texas--- all bee of a controversial cartoon a northern new tonight, bitter words and angry accusations from the governor of texas because of a controversial cartoon published in a northern california newspaper. this cartoon in the "sacramento bee" shows rick perry boasting about business booming in texas.
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and to the required as you see, an explosion and the word boom. this comes after the explosion last week at the fertilizer plant in texas that killed 14 people and injured 200 others. governor perry says he is disgusted. he is demanding an apology from the paper's editor. the cartoonist argues that the cartoon is only mocking the danger of texas's loose regulations. cal fire is getting a jump on an early wildfire season. kpix 5's mark sayre tells us they are hanging out the help wanted sigh weeks ahead of schedule. >> reporter: elizabeth, the winds are already blowing here at anderson lake in morgan hill. the temperatures here expected to hit the 90s over the next four days. and what's happening here is just an example of the fire danger being faced all over california. the official beginning of summer is still nearly two months away. but you wouldn't know it by the sound of the dry brush. california is already well ahead of the normal pace when it comes to wildfires largely due to record low rainfall.
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>> these have two 100-foot length of hose on them. >> reporter: he says he knows what's ahead. >> a lot of work basically, we know obviously coming into fire season that we're going to be busy and be working more, you know, extended days on big fires. >> reporter: already, several significant wildfires have broken out around the state including this 300-acre fire in riverside county. in response, cal fire is hiring its seasonal firefighters about 3 weeks early. in santa clara county in the east bay, 42 seasonal firefighters will start work on monday with another 30 following one week later, 50 seasonal firefighters will start monday in sonoma county and the north bay, and the peninsula will see 30 seasonal firefighters starting next month. >> so the week that they come in, they go back through basic safety training, hose lays, hand tool management and physical fitness training. >> reporter: cal fire's battalion chief says staffing up early means a full
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complement of crews will be availability if the predictions of an early fire season come true. >> most years we're not fully staffed until july 1. >> reporter: so this is early. >> this is early for us. we want to be prepared. due to the lack of rainfall, our fuel moistures are very low, very dry. >> reporter: once all of the staffing is complete around the state, the state will have 12,000 wildland firefighters including about one-third that come from the prison work crews that you see on these fire scenes from time to time. elizabeth, back to you. >> we know our wildfire season isn't typically starting until june. but it's hard to believe given the kind of fires we have already seen in parts of california this year. >> reporter: yeah. the numbers are really incredible. beginning with the beginning of this calendar year, january 1st, cal fire says it's responded to 680 wildland fires. they say that's about 200 more than they would normally have by this time of any begi -- of
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any given year. they are seeing fire early north to south all over california. >> better to be prepared. thank you. well, we had some questions this afternoon about smoky skies in the north bay especially noticeable in petaluma. we're told no need for great concern. we did some checking, found out the smoke is coming from controlled burns in west marin people are on edge because we haven't had rain for so long. it's beautiful. but it's been dry. >> we are going to hit a point where the fire danger which is always high every summer here is going to be that much worse because this is for the entire state of california not just the bay area the driest start to a year ever in the state's history. we have 120 years of weather data that goes back. that's never been drier so all that green you see is turning brown and that fire danger will continue to go up. oakland hills of course the big fire there 19 years ago. and we will see an increased fire danger as we move forward because i don't see a drop of rain on kpix 5 hi-def doppler for the next several days. there is mount diablo and here are the highs.
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war mark was morgan hill a high of 77 where mark was. 90s next week. livermore 90s next wednesday 77 today. concord 75. look at the onshore flow still prevalent in oakland with high of only 65. and san francisco 57 for a high. here's the setup. high pressure is on its way back. same one that moved way from us along the low cloud cover to move back in will be the same one that will eliminate the onshore flow by the top of next week as it moves over us. let's talk about the progression. over the weekend it's closer so the onshore flow is lighter. that means more sunshine in the morning, fewer morning clouds and more sunshine in the afternoon too. higher temperatures over the weekend. then toward the middle of next week high pressure in the perfect spot to give us the offshore east wind the opposite of the flow from the pacific ocean. 80s in the city and low 90s inland are likely by the middle of next week. pretty wide temperature spread tomorrow. san francisco downtown 64. but san jose and livermore will be in the low 80s.
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also for concord and napa at 82. fairfield 83. oakland close to 70 degrees. redwood city 74. here's your extended forecast. we are getting warmer on sunday, warmer on monday, warmer by next wednesday. keep getting warmer and you keep adding up the numbers, we'll see 90s by next thursday. downtown san francisco back in the 80s. inland 90s. the grass gets drier and fire danger will go up quickly. thank you. well, bart has been busy talking about its new app that helps commuters figure out how crowded the trains can be. the only problem? it's based on historical averages, not realtime data. and we have learned not only are bart cars crowded, they can be dangerously overcrowded. tonight how bart gets away with it. >> reporter: ask regular commuters on bart. >> feels like a cattle cart. >> people just push in. even if there's no more room, they just push through. >> reporter: in the evenings, some say it pays to go farther
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from home before turning around. it's called back riding. >> i'll go backwards a couple of stops so that i have a better chance of getting a seat before coming back the other way. >> reporter: and sometimes the crowding gets dangerous. >> ended up within two feet of a fight that broke out. >> reporter: this train during rush hour was crowded with passengers who have just enough room to stand. we took former fire marshal and safety consultant elliott diddleman on a rush hour train. he estimated that we were among more than 100 people on board this car. >> you're in about 100% of peak, 5% of crush load. >> reporter: the overseer says cars seat about 60 and carry 180 people in what's called crush load. so who determines that per car when you hit crush load, no more, nobody else gets on? >> it's self-selecting. people just let the train go by. >> reporter: here's what you get during crush load. each passenger with bags and back passion gets 2.4 square feet with bags panned
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backpacks. so four passengers would have to squeeze into a space like this closet. cozy to say the least. unlike buildings, passenger car capacity is not regulated by local, state or federal agencies. meaning nobody is keeping an eye on whether crush load is safe. >> i didn't find anything that tells you how to calculate the occupant load nor how many doors you need based upon the occupant load. if this was a building, there's all kinds of codes that deal with that. >> reporter: it's only going to get worse before it gets better. bart's daily ridership will go from 400,000 to half million in five years to a potential three- quarters of a million people a day. just how will bart accommodate that many passengers and keep them safe? it's not with the system in place now. >> the answer is we have to make some major investments in going to more than 1,000 railcars. right now our fleet is about 670. we need a new train control system so that we can run
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trains closer together and run trains into san francisco every two minutes instead of every 2.5 minutes. >> reporter: bart has ordered more than 400 new cars but they won't start arriving for four years. now, bart says those new cars may not have more seats, but they will have more room for people who stand. translation? riders will have more company when a train hits crush load. i'm ken bastida in san francisco. a little bit of the city's past unearthed. right across the street from our station? yup. we'll have the story coming up. >> and morning a decade after 9/11, the remarkable discovery just blocks from ground zero. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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francisco came to a screechg halt... and the stru 20 years ago traffic on
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the old embarcadero freeway in san francisco came to a halt. and the structure was torn down. but all these years later, some of the last pieces of that freeway are finally being ripputground. ken bastida is outside the embarcadero where workers are digging up history. >> reporter: 1991 then mayor art agnos decided to tear down the embarcadero freeway after it was damaged in 1989 in loma prieta. he called it the greatest thing he ever did as mayor of san francisco. these are the last remnants of the on-ramp that used to go up on the embarcadero freeway. we have video from the '70s to show you that. if we were standing here today we would be run over by cars on the freeway, the 1.2-mile embarcadero freeway was built in 1953 originally to connect the bay bridge with the golden gate bridge. of course, that northern spur
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was never built. and a lot of people didn't like the old freeway. they called it ugly. the man taking out these last few remnants says he remembers it. the bay bridge? >> i remember living in san francisco and using it to go to the east bay. so it was a big green spot with all the concrete under it. >> reporter: what did you think it? >> i liked it fo convenience. i didn't like it for the view. >> reporter: it was ugly? >> it was ugly. >> reporter: it's going to be a six-story 77-unit affordable housing with retail down below. a lot of people here need a place to live. they say this lot has been sitting here. they are going to develop it now. it should be finished sometime in 2015. reporting live from the embarcadero, ken bastida, kpix 5. >> it's hard to imagine that spectacular view of the bay being blocked by a freeway. was there ever an effort to get
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rid of it before loma prieta? >> reporter: it was controversial and then in 1986, dianne feinstein and other supervisors said it was ugly and wanted to redo the embarcadero, imagine that, and there was a lot of opposition. they put it on the ballot. and believe it or not, it lost 2-1 because people were afraid it was going to cause gridlock along the embarcadero. even "chronicle" columnist herb caen was against it. he said it was a dumb idea to build the embarcadero, and the only thing dumber would be to tear it down. well, it got torn down. its fate was delivered in about 15 seconds in 1989 and look at the beautiful promenade we have now. >> it is gorgeous. thank you, ken bastida. >> it was ugly but convenient. >> that's sometimes good. coming up, our next half hour, the remarkable discovery, more than a decade after 9/11, how a rusted piece of metal evokes thoughts of the attacks. >> i'm not going to be able to come here and get my knicknacks. >> it's been a bay area icon
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believed to have come from e of the hijacked planes has found.. 3 blocks from ground zero. developing news out of lower manhattan. after 12 years after the 9/11 attacks, a part believed to have come from one of the hijacked planes was found three blocks from ground zero. a survey crew spotted it wednesday wedged between two buildings at the site of a planned islamic community center. stamped on the twist the piece of metal is a clearly visible identification number. and the word boeing. >> can't say with certainty what part that is but the assumption is it's one of the landing gears from the 9/11 aircrafts. >> it's closed off. they photographed the part but haven't removed it waiting for a decision on whether the soil in the area will be sifted for possible human remains. unlike you, congress is on
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vacation again. but before they left, lawmakers made sure they wouldn't be late getting home. cbs reporter danielle nottingham on the deal putting air traffic controllers back to work. >> reporter: lawmakers left capitol hill for a week-long break. many headed to the airport just minutes after passing a bill that is expected to end the flight delays seen this week. the measure allows the transportation department to move about $250 million within the agency and put air traffic controllers back on the job full time. >> i have been against the sequester. >> reporter: but democrats and republicans continue to blame each other for the across-the- board budget cuts that led to controller cutbacks in the first place. >> we're here today because this administration has decided to put politics over passengers. >> speaker boehner said the sequestration bill included 98%
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of what republicans wanted. >> reporter: the air traffic controllers union is applauding the deal. when controllers were forced to begin missing work this week without pay, it triggered thousands of delays. >> have a good flight. >> reporter: daniel trapp says lawmakers should have found a budget compromise months ago and never let it come to this. >> watching it happen is like a slow motion train wreck and it's silly. >> reporter: the white house says congress needs to address the billions of other automatic cuts impacting dozens of federal agencies. >> this is a band-aid covering a massive wound to the economy. >> reporter: the measure could also prevent the closure of smaller airport towers around the country. danielle nottingham, cbs news, reagan national airport. let's hope we're all safer. no one is happier than all this than the air traffic controllers themself. they were losing a day's pay every other week. suspected boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev is in federal prison. he has been transferred to a secure hospital facility 40 miles west of boston.
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the fbi is searching a nearby landfill for his laptop and any other evidence tying him to the bombing. russia first raised red flags about the 19-year-old's mother and brother back in 2011. president putin says the bombings underscore a need for more international cooperation on security issues. >> this tragedy should motivate us to work closer together in address common challenges and threats. >> coincidentally the boat where he was found hiding last friday was also moved today to an undisclosed location. well, iconic country music singer george jones known for his heartbreaking classics has died. ♪[ music ] >> a few upbeat ones, too. jones died at a nashville hospital after being treated for fever and irregular blood pressure. he was currently in the middle of a farewell tour after a 50-
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year career and more than 150 albums. his expressive baritone and poignant songs won him two grammys, a place in the country music hall of fame and he was among the artists honored at the kennedy center. jones was 81. 100 years of history up in flames. still ahead, why this burned bay area bicycle shop carries so much sentimental value. >> hi, i'm roberta gonzales at the hottest place in town. we are here where weather is going to affect outdoor sports. that's ahead as the news continues on kpix 5. >> but first, here's a look at the new eastern span of the bay bridge. ,,,,
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the flames tore through onef the nation's oldest bicycle shops on first street last 100 years of history are gone after a fire in san jose. the flames tore through one of the nation's oldest buys company shops on first street. kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran gives us a peek into the past to show us why this place is so special. >> reporter: it's like saying good-bye to an old friend. >> i just feel like we just lost something that has been part of us for a while. >> reporter: for these people, faber's cyclery was more than a bike shop. it was a neighborhood staple. >> as you're driving by, you still see all the bike frames
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racked up, cruisers, stingrays, 10-speeds, like old schwinn bikes and things like that. >> reporter: it was one of the oldest bike shops in the u.s. in business for almost 100 years. the building itself was built in 1884. it used to be a saloon, blacksmith shop and soda fountain. in a matter of hours, all of that history was lost. >> i'm not going to be able to come here and get my little knickknacks, all the old friends that i have met here through the years, not going to meet up anymore. >> reporter: last night's fire was fast-moving. firefighters faced a number of challenges trying to save the building. >> the age of the structure played a bit in how the fire traveled. again, this is a balloon construction type of building so it's limited to no fire stops within the building so it allowed the fire to travel within the walls quite fast. >> reporter: faber survived nearly 100 years of redevelopment and was part of several personal memories.
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although it doesn't survive this fire, for the faber faithful the memories will live on. in s jose, cate caugiran, kpix 5. >> the cause the fire is under investigation but police are saying squatters may have been in that building. invisible hazards you may be exposing your child to right now. coming up in tonight's consumerwatch, why you may wan to start buying baby products that don't abide by state law. >> morning clouds, afternoon sunshine, temperatures pretty chilly near the water. but that forecast is going to be changing as we get through the weekend into next week. we are heading back to the 90s for some of you. find out when next. ,,,,,,,,
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most baby products sold in california come with labelst say they meet the state's fl most baby products sold here in california come with labels that say they meet the state flammability standards. that might sound good but as consumerwatch reporter julie watts explains that's a label you may want to avoid due to
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the potentially toxic consequences. reporter: they may be plush and soft to the touch, but there could be something sinister lurking in your baby products. >> it's sort of incredible that the same chemical that was taken from kids' pajamas in the '70s is back in these products. >> reporter: this person was instrumental in getting chemical flame retardants banned from children's clothing more than 30 years ago after they were found to mutate dna and traces of the chemicals were found in children after wearing the clothes just one night. >> these chemicals impact brain development and reproductive organ developments and some of them like tris are associated with increased rates of cancer. >> reporter: decades later the chem balance are still in baby products raging from nursing pillows, car seats, changing pads, anything with foam thanks to california's flammability standard technical bulletin 117, which prompts manufacturers to use chemical flame retardants. >> one problem is the
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manufacturers are not required to say what flame retardants is being used. >> reporter: they are not required to prove the chemicals are safe. >> we're very selective of the products we carry and it narrows it down to a few. >> reporter: boutique stores exclusively offer products like organic mattresses, breast- feeding pillows and the orbit carseat currently the only one on the market without chemical flame retardants but if you look closely you may think you're breaking the law by buying some of these products. there are some products, for instance, breast-feeding pillows that come with a tag saying, it does not abide by california flammability standards. is that a good thing? >> well, i would choose those products. >> reporter: she points out the flammability standard is currently being rewritten to exclude both baby products but in the meantime if the product contains foam and the tag says it abides by california law, it's likely filled with flame retardants. >> if there is cotton, wool, polyester, it probably won't
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have it. if it's foam, it's hard to tell. >> reporter: the chemical industry contendsists products are safe and is lobbying against changes to the state's flammability standards that would reduce the use of chemicals in children's products. nursing pillows and strollers are already exempt. now, these are the same type of chemicals that got prop 65 cancer warnings slapped on all california couches and manufacturers do not have to disclose which chemicals they are using or even prove that they're safe. julie watts, kpix 5. we're warming up. paul was talking about the 90s but you looked up fargo? they are warming up too? >> the answer is, fargo. the question, what do i do between weathercasts? [ laughter ] >> i saw this really interesting tweet from jim cantore of the weather channel. fargo, north dakota hit 50 degrees for the first time this year. we are chilly in the morning 52, i need a jacket. >> so cold. >> that's why we live here. 50 degrees for the first time. and now what? guess what. doesn't look like that in fargo, does it.
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live look outside beautiful shot from our oakland camera. we are not in the 50s. we are in the 50s in san francisco. 55. 60s san jose and santa rosa. oakland 63 and concord 70. livermore 71. another reason why it's great to live in northern california and the bay area. overnight tonight 50 for oakland. concord 50, san jose 50. upper 40s for vallejo, fremont and napa. here's your microclimate forecast. we are heading to cupertino where you will be warming up. low 70s today. morning clouds tomorrow, high of 77. you will likely hit 80 and stay there beginning sunday. here's the change. same area of high pressure we have been talking about for the past 10 days. it's not going to eliminate morning cloud cover but it will minimize it starting tomorrow. once it's closer less of an onshore flow and less morning cloud cover. so that means temperatures will go up. at the coastline still in the 60s but i think we'll sigh much more widespread 70s tomorrow near the bay. next week, we are talking 80s and 90s because the same high pressure dome will build to the
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north getting in that perfect spot to give us an east offshore wind eliminating the influence of the chilly pacific ocean. so inland hitting the 90s by the middle of next week. downtown san francisco, another chance of making it into the low 80s. fire danger goes up because of no rain. temperatures go up, humidities go down. morning clouds near the bay and a little coming up sunday but temperatures will continue to climb and climbing all the way to the low 80s in the city next week with low 90s likely by the middle of next week away from the water. we will hit 80 tomorrow in concord 8 degrees above average. san jose also 8 degrees above normal at 80 degrees. fremont 75. low 70s for san mateo. concord tomorrow 80. low 80s also for walnut creek. danville and livermore, 80s. antioch 81. mid-70s san rafael. kentfield 74, daly city 62. you warm next week. we'll warm up a couple of degrees each day. lots of sunshine and next week
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we're looking at widespread upper 80s inland. by thursday you'll hit 90. downtown san francisco and oakland and san jose will be well into the 80s. it is an awesome day to be a golden state warriors fan. the mobile weather lab roberta gonzales live at o.co. >> reporter: it is an awesome day today. i'm at the hottest place in town. according to mobile weather it is 59 degrees and the winds have been picking up to 5 and 10 miles per hour. it's hot because of the action here. first off over here we have o.co stadium and this is the horseshoe an over here is oracle arena. [ signal breakup 7:05 as host the baltimore orioles. we are expecting 15,000 loud
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rowdy people. and at least 5,000 walkups. [ loud noise in the background ] >> reporter: across the horseshoe at oracle we have 19,000 people for game three of play-off action. now, the warriors are handing out these shirts tonight. they are unveiling three brand- new slogans for their play-off action. this one says unite. the other three shirts say one says protect, another one says defense, and then the third one says battle. the battle will be on tonight as we have our golden state warriors playing host in game three of play-off action against the denver nuggets. >> oh, yeah! >> thousands of people expected here tonight. reporter: you can imagine the traffic has been mayhem all afternoon. we are expecting the same thing when the games conclude. parking $30. none of these people have been complaining. >> no! [ yelling ] >> reporter: they are ready for some play-off action and for some baseball. reporting for mobile weather in oakland, roberta gonzales, kpix 5. whoo!
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time decision but it looks f he'll vern glenn at oracle arena with tonight's sports. >> after six long years -- [
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signal breakup >> warriors play-off basketball is in the oracle arena. in fact, they won't be calling it oracle tonight. they will be calling it roracle because 19,000 will be jammed in to see the warriors. will steph curry be good it go on the injured left ankle? at 5:20 this afternoon he tested it out and it looks like he may play. he is listed in the starting line-up and in fact with david lee already out, they have to have him go. in fact, a lot of the supporting cast will be leaned on to give a hand. >> i definitely don't expect him to sit out no play-off game if he can go. >> reporter: quarter steph, half steph, you'll take it. >> any steph is just fine with me. he gonna give us something. at this point, you know, he carried us all year him and david along with jack. whether he is not 100%, we can
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always use him. >> reporter: it's been six years since we have had a play- off game in the building. what were you doing six years? >> i was watching. >> reporter: ninth grade or something? >> i'm not that young. [ laughter ] >> i'm not harrison. six years ago i was junior high school. >> reporter: only one guy on the team from that 2007 "we believe" team. and how about bringing th magic here tonight. we have the warriors t-shirts. >> it's great. i'm looking forward to it. >> reporter: why will the warriors win tonight? >> because we're going to play harder. this team is going to play hard, try to create turnovers go to the offensive boards. we can play harder than them and exceedtheir intensity level level. oklahoma city's chances of getting back to the fines has taken a serious hit. russell westbrook will have
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knee surgery and could miss the rest of the post-season. he never missed a game due to injury at any level. day 2 of the nfl draft. they paraded out their number one pick in front of the media today. dj hayden met with the bay area today in alameda. it was a day that was far from certainly last november when hayden suffered a life- threatening injury at houston causing him to have emergency heart surgery. >> my mom just -- hurt seeing her child in the hospital like that. it was just -- >> reporter: you know how moms are. my baby, my baby. now. >> she was like oh, my! just seeing her like that it was just like seeing her cry and i was crying to, it was just -- it was just a real hard time for our family but we pulled through it. and good came out of it. >> reporter: the 49ers had a
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pair of second round picks. the first defendive end from florida state with 11 sacks. >> i thought he was the best defensive lineman for florida state. >> reporter: 100% by week one and with the 55th overall pick, san francisco took tight end vance mcdonald out of rice. stanford tight end zach ernts became the first bay area player. he went to the eagles. he caught 16 touchdowns with his three seasons on the fly. [ signal breakup >> reporter: it's been eight years since aaron rodgers waited to hear his name called on draft day. [ signal breakup ] >> got the last laugh. the former cal star has agreed to a new five-year, $110 million deal with the packers making him the highest paid player in nfl history and if you're
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rodgers, you're saying take that. the warriors hope the denver nuggets "take that" in the third game of the nba play-off series. that will do it from roar-c le arena. >> thank you. >> it will be exciting. >> very yellow there. >> very. we'll put the seven-day forecast. maybe this is for the warriors. lots of yellow. i lot of sunshine, a90 next week away from the coast. getting toasty again. >> see you at 11:00. the latest news and weather are always on kpix.com. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com saving you money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today.
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announcer: this is joey fatone. it's time to play "family feud"! give it up for steve harvey! [captioning made possible by fremantle media] steve: ...say that. wel-- [cheering and applause] steve: welcome to "family--" welcome to "family feud," everybody. i'm your man steve harvey. boy, we got a good one for you today. returning for their second day, from olympia, washington, and every other part of this country, it's the frey family! [cheering] steve: and from chicago, illinois, it's the vachachira-- show 'em love--family! [cheering] steve: let's go. give me jack. give me jimmy. ["family feud" theme playing]

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